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The efforts of the Chinese to establish fruit indus- 
tries is worthy of -note. There are now a few good 
fruit orchards, owned by Chinese, principally in 
Malacca and Penang, from which markets are 
regularly supplied. 
The Malays lack the organizing power of the 
Chinese, and also their industry. The competition 
for life has never been keen with them, as with the 
Chinese in China, and this is reflected in their 
-agricultural systems. Generally speaking, one may 
state that Malay agriculture lacks effort, and their 
systems are devised without respect to the amount 
of labour involved. This is surprising in an easy- 
going race, but the reason probably is that their 
wants have been so simple that the work involved 
in supplying necessities is comparatively small. It 
must be remembered that, until recent years, the 
Malay obtained the majority of his necessities from 
the jungle, and that his mentality has, as yet, hardly 
grasped the new order of life. As time goes on, 
Malay life recedes from the jungle, and with the 
diminishing knowledge of jungle produce which 
follows, he has to rely more on cultivated plants. 
The gradual transition from this old order to the 
new was rudely interrupted by the introduction of 
rubber into Malaya. In this crop the Malay saw 
that he might earn sufficient to supply his wants 
without much effort. The consequence has been 
that agricultural enterprise amongst Malays has 
been practically killed — he has lost his old cunning 
without acquiring new experiences in agriculture. 
New systems have to be introduced to change this 
order of things. Comparatively little can be done 
with old Malays of set habits of life, but much is 
